"public square" meaning in All languages combined

See public square on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: en-us-public square.ogg [Mid-Atlantic] Forms: public squares [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} public square (plural public squares)
  1. Synonym of town square Categories (place): Places Synonyms: town square [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-public_square-en-noun-AqiSJslu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for public square meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "public squares",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "public square (plural public squares)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places",
          "orig": "en:Places",
          "parents": [
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 18, Jason Parham, quoting Sarah J. Jackson, “There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter”, in Wired, →ISSN",
          "text": "“The infrastructures of places like Mastodon and TikTok, which are wildly different from one another, of course, are too segmented to create the feeling of a truly public square,” Jackson says.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "For Musk it looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards and steal a march on Fox News.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of town square"
      ],
      "id": "en-public_square-en-noun-AqiSJslu",
      "links": [
        [
          "town square",
          "town square#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "town square"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-public square.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/En-us-public_square.ogg/En-us-public_square.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/En-us-public_square.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Mid-Atlantic"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Mid-Atlantic)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "public square"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "public squares",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "public square (plural public squares)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Places"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 18, Jason Parham, quoting Sarah J. Jackson, “There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter”, in Wired, →ISSN",
          "text": "“The infrastructures of places like Mastodon and TikTok, which are wildly different from one another, of course, are too segmented to create the feeling of a truly public square,” Jackson says.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "For Musk it looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards and steal a march on Fox News.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of town square"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "town square",
          "town square#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "town square"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-us-public square.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/En-us-public_square.ogg/En-us-public_square.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/En-us-public_square.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Mid-Atlantic"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Mid-Atlantic)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "public square"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.